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Linear codes with a few weights are very important in coding theory and have attracted a lot of attention. In this paper, we present a construction of $q$-ary linear codes from trace and norm functions over finite fields. The weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Ziling Heng , Qin Yue

Minimal codes are linear codes where all non-zero codewords are minimal, i.e., whose support is not properly contained in the support of another codeword. The minimum possible length of such a $k$-dimensional linear code over $\mathbb{F}_q$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Vladimir Chubenko , Sascha Kurz

We present a precise characterization of linear functional-repair storage codes in terms of {\em admissible states/}, with each state made up from a collection of vector spaces over some fixed finite field. To illustrate the usefulness of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Henk D. L. Hollmann , Wencin Poh

Linear codes have been an interesting subject of study for many years, as linear codes with few weights have applications in secrete sharing, authentication codes, association schemes, and strongly regular graphs. In this paper, a class of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Can Xiang , Chunming Tang , Keqin Feng

Linear codes with few weights have been an interesting subject of study for many years, as these codes have applications in secrete sharing, authentication codes, association schemes, and strongly regular graphs. In this paper, linear codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Chunming Tang , Can Xiang , Keqin Feng

Minimal linear codes are algebraic objects which gained interest in the last twenty years, due to their link with Massey's secret sharing schemes. In this context, Ashikhmin and Barg provided a useful and a quite easy to handle sufficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Matteo Bonini , Martino Borello

In this paper, a class of two-weight and three-weight linear codes over $\gf(p)$ is constructed, and their application in secret sharing is investigated. Some of the linear codes obtained are optimal in the sense that they meet certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Kelan Ding , Cunsheng Ding

Cyclic codes are a subclass of linear codes and have applications in consumer electronics, data storage systems, and communication systems as they have efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. In this paper, monomials and trinomials over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Cunsheng Ding , Zhengchun Zhou

In this paper, we give a geometric characterization of minimal linear codes. In particular, we relate minimal linear codes to cutting blocking sets, introduced in a recent paper by Bonini and Borello. Using this characterization, we derive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Gianira Nicoletta Alfarano , Martino Borello , Alessandro Neri

Linear codes with few weights have applications in secrete sharing, authentication codes, association schemes, and strongly regular graphs. In this paper, several classes of $p$-ary linear codes with two or three weights are constructed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Zhengchun Zhou , Nian Li , Cuiling Fan , Tor Helleseth

The setting of projective systems can be used to study the parameters of a projective linear code $\mathcal{C}$. This can be done by considering the intersections of the point set $\Omega$ defined by the columns of a generating matrix for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Angela Aguglia , Luca Giuzzi , Giovanni Longobardi , Viola Siconolfi

Cyclic codes are an interesting subclass of linear codes and have been used in consumer electronics, data transmission technologies, broadcast systems, and computer applications due to their efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Cunsheng Ding

We construct linear codes over the finite field Fq from arbitrary simplicial complexes, establishing a connection between topological properties and fundamental coding parameters. First, we study the behaviour of the weights of codewords…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Antonio Jesús Lorite López , Daniel Camazón Portela , Juan Antonio López Ramos

Linear codes have been an interesting topic in both theory and practice for many years. In this paper, for an odd prime power $q$, we construct some class of linear code over finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ with defining set be the preimage of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Xiaoni Du , Yunqi Wan

Cyclic codes are an interesting type of linear codes and have wide applications in communication and storage systems due to their efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. Inspired by the recent work on binary cyclic codes published in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Hai Liu , Chengju Li , Cunsheng Ding

Linear codes have been an interesting topic in both theory and practice for many years. In this paper, a class of $q$-ary linear codes with few weights are presented and their weight distributions are determined using Gauss periods. Some of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Gaopeng Jian

Linear codes with a few weights can be applied to secrete sharing, authentication codes, association schemes and strongly regular graphs. For an odd prime power $q$, we construct a class of three-weight $\F_q$-linear codes from quadratic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Xiumei Li , Zongxi Chen , Fei Li

In this paper we generalize constructions in two recent works of Ding, Heng, Zhou to any field $\mathbb{F}_q$, $q$ odd, providing infinite families of minimal codes for which the Ashikhmin-Barg bound does not hold.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-21 Daniele Bartoli , Matteo Bonini

Minimal codewords have applications in decoding linear codes and in cryptography. We study the number of minimal codewords in binary linear codes that arise by appending a unit matrix to the adjacency matrix of a graph.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Sascha Kurz

Cyclic codes are a subclass of linear codes and have applications in consumer electronics, data storage systems, and communication systems as they have efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. In this paper, almost perfect nonlinear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Cunsheng Ding